"Nonhedonic" food motivation in humans involves dopamine in the dorsal striatum and methylphenidate amplifies this effect

The drive for food is one of the most powerful of human and animal behaviors. Dopamine, a neurotransmitter involved with motivation and reward, its believed to regulate food intake in laboratory animals by modulating its rewarding effects through the nucleus accumbens (NA). Here we assess the involv...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Synapse (New York, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2002-06, Vol.44 (3), p.175-180
Hauptverfasser:	Volkow, Nora D., Wang, Gene-Jack, Fowler, Joanna S., Logan, Jean, Jayne, Millard, Franceschi, Dinko, Wong, Cristopher, Gatley, Samuel J., Gifford, Andrew N., Ding, Yu-Shin, Pappas, Naomi
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Analysis of Variance Corpus Striatum - drug effects Corpus Striatum - metabolism Corpus Striatum - secretion D2 receptors Dopamine - biosynthesis Dopamine - secretion Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors - pharmacology Feeding Behavior - drug effects Feeding Behavior - physiology Feeding Behavior - psychology Female Humans Hunger - drug effects Hunger - physiology imaging Male Methylphenidate Methylphenidate - pharmacology Motivation nucleus accumbens obesity raclopride
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